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RUSH: Impeachment, I\u2019ll tell you<\/a>. We\u2019ve been back and forth and upside down on this. But I think there\u2019s an aspect to this the Democrats are not thinking of. And even in the audio sound bites I have that were collected over the weekend, the Democrats are still out there trying to goad the Republicans into impeaching Obama, and Obama is out there trying to goad Republicans into impeaching him. And it\u2019s the Democrats that are doing all the talk about it. <\/p>\n

You got Juan Williams on Fox telling everybody that anybody wants to do this is a racist pig and so forth. The one thing the Democrats are not stopping to think about as they continue to talk about this, would you want the word “impeachment” associated with your president so damn often, if you were a Democrat? What do they think they\u2019re doing here? After a while, if you keep talking about the impeachment of your own president… I understand they\u2019re succeeding with fundraising on it. Do you realize they collected $4 million the last two weeks in just e-mail appeals based on this fact the Republicans want to impeach Obama? So I understand they got their money out of it. <\/p>\n

But I\u2019m gonna tell you, I never follow the conventional wisdom. I find out what the conventional wisdom is and I go the other way almost always. And this conventional wisdom is that all this talk of impeachment\u2019s gonna help Obama and it\u2019s gonna hurt the Republicans and it\u2019s gonna really force Obama\u2019s base, the Democrat base, out in droves in November. If they keep it up, at some point people are gonna start asking, “Well, why would anybody want to impeach? Why are you guys talking about? Why is this threat even there?” <\/line><\/p>\n

Right now the Democrats are living off the answer to that question, “Well, the Republicans are mean-spirited, they\u2019re extremists, they\u2019re racists, and they hate the first black president. That\u2019s why they want to impeach him.” After a while, if the Democrats keep this drumbeat up, common sense, folks, at some point is going to prevail with enough people that this isn\u2019t gonna make sense. Impeachment as a positive? Impeachment, this is all they\u2019ve got is to run around and spout empty threats that their president\u2019s gonna be impeached? To me this is the exact kind of thing that can backfire. So I hope they keep it up. ‘Cause they\u2019ve got nothing. The Democrats literally have got nothing going for \u2019em. <\/p>\n

The truth of the matter, and the Drive-Bys don\u2019t tell you about it because they are Democrats, but the Democrat Party is in the dregs. Nothing that they\u2019ve done is working. You can\u2019t find a success as part of any policy they\u2019ve implemented since Obama became president. You can\u2019t find one. This country is in a downward spiral. The only question people are asking is, is this coincidental, accidental, or purposeful. And that\u2019s what people are debating. <\/p>\n

The border\u2019s wide open. Everybody knows it. Now Obama is out there continuing, the Democrats are continuing this tease campaign that Obama is just gonna grant blanket amnesty to five or six million, if the Republicans don\u2019t do it by, what, October or now September. And they keep talking about if the Congress doesn\u2019t — let\u2019s not forget, the Democrats run the Senate here. It\u2019s not just the Republicans in the House that are obstacles here. The Democrats in the Senate are not playing ball. And they\u2019re not getting anything done. Harry Reid\u2019s made an absolute disaster out of the Senate. <\/p>\n

<\/a>I know we make the mistake, and I made this point last week. See if this doesn\u2019t describe you. You\u2019re watching the news. You hear Obama make an argument, and you think, “Okay, that\u2019s it, he\u2019s won the argument.” As soon as he makes it he\u2019s won the argument because you think that every low-information voter in the world or low-information dingbat is gonna automatically believe everything Obama says when he complains, when he whines, when he makes allegations. <\/p>\n

So you get depressed. You get a little defeated. There goes Obama again making some allegation just by virtue of making the charge, just by virtue of expressing an opinion, you think he\u2019s automatically gonna be right. Look at his approval numbers. Thirty-nine in a Gallup poll, 40 in CNN. It\u2019s lower than that. It has to be lower than that, given the Wilder Effect and everything else that goes into play when people talk to pollsters about black candidates. His approval number is way lower than that, real world, there is nowhere near 50% of this country that\u2019s supportive of Obama. Nowhere near it. You live in a world of mythical support for Obama because the Drive-Bys are not gonna dare tell anybody how low his support really is. And even when they report 39 or 40%, they\u2019re gonna report it and let it go. They\u2019re not gonna harp on it; they\u2019re not gonna remind you of it; report it once to say they\u2019ve done it and move on to other things. <\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not the case that when Obama makes an argument or says something, it\u2019s automatically deemed true because the Republicans don\u2019t have a chance at refuting it. The Democrats have nothing, folks, all they\u2019ve got is the race card, impeachment, it\u2019s all part of the same tactic. And that is tell lies to their base about the extremist, mean-spirited, evil, racist Republicans and get votes out in order to protect and save Democrats from these evil, mean guys on the Republican side. <\/p>\n

Now, it\u2019s been an effective strategy because the Republicans haven\u2019t found a way to refute it, but here, grab sound bite number two. This is Mike Allen. He works at Politico. He\u2019s got a blog he publishes every morning that\u2019s an encapsulation of what\u2019s going on in town that day, DC. He was on Inside Politics yesterday morning on CNN. John King the host, said, “Democrats think if they can lose only eight to 12 House seats they\u2019ll be in play if they get a presidential win in 2016 to maybe get the majority back.”<\/p>\n

Now, stop and think about that. Here\u2019s John King, well-known media slave in the Democrat Party, wishfully thinking, “Okay now, if the Democrats, if they can just lose only eight to 12 seats, then they\u2019re gonna be in play to win the White House in 2016, but if they lose more than 12 it might a problem. When\u2019s the last time you ever heard anybody talking about, “Oh, yeah, if we only lose eight to 12, the White House is a slam dunk”? They\u2019re thinking Electoral College and all these other bits of minutia. But the point is, this is where they are. Losing eight to 12 House seats they\u2019ll still be in play, and you could have, they say, the Senate, the Republican needs a net gain of six, think it\u2019s possible, somebody\u2019s gotta get to 51 or 50. Anyway, is this a fair assessment, Mike Allen? Where are the Democrats right now?<\/p>\n

ALLEN: Here\u2019s an amazing sign of just how bleak the environment is for Democrats. The Democrat strategists who had access to all the polls, focus groups, said, we\u2019re writing off voters who are angry. Our target voters now are people who are worried, disappointed, concerned. Those are the voters that they want. That\u2019s a bad place to be.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Holy smokes is he right. That\u2019s a horrible place to be. I\u2019ll explain why when we get back.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. So Mike Allen at Politico says he talked to a Democrat strategerist, accessed all the polls, all the focus groups. “We are writing off voters who are angry.” Well, that makes sense. Voters who are angry, who is there to be angry at but Obama and the Democrats? Contrary to what the media might want you to think that everybody\u2019s mad at the Republicans, they haven\u2019t done anything. <\/line><\/p>\n

Well, that\u2019s true. But in this context, that\u2019s positive. Their fingerprints aren\u2019t on any of this. As far as Republican voters are concerned, they\u2019re in trouble because they haven\u2019t done anything, meaning they haven\u2019t tried any push-back. But their fingerprints are not on this mess. The Republicans are not keeping the borders open. They want to, but they haven\u2019t done it. Obama has. The Republicans have nothing to say over this economy. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s all Obama.<\/p>\n

Everything\u2019s all Obama. <\/p>\n

So the Democrat strategists are writing off angry voters. That makes sense. But this next business that Democrats “‘target voters now are people who are worried, disappointed, concerned,'” Mike Allen says, “Those are the voters that they want. That\u2019s a bad place to be,” and it is. Why do you think so, Mr. Snerdley? Why is it a bad place to be to want voters who are worried, disappointed, and concerned? (interruption) <\/p>\n

Because they\u2019re worried, disappointed, and concerned over you! I don\u2019t care whether it\u2019s anger or disappointment or worry or concern. It stands to reason that if there is worry over the future of the country — if there\u2019s concern over the future of your job prospect, the future of your family — you are not, after six years, gonna blame George W. Bush! And, by the way, the polling data now reflects that under 50% hold Bush responsible for the economy now. <\/p>\n

So that\u2019s played out for Obama. So if this is true, and if the Democrats\u2019 turnout and vote prospects in November circle around only those who are worried, disappointed, and concerned, there\u2019s nothing positive there. That\u2019s the bottom line. You\u2019ve heard the old saw, “Yeah, you gotta give people reasons to vote for you. You just can\u2019t have \u2019em out there voting against the other guy! You gotta have them vote for you.”<\/p>\n

There\u2019s nothing… There\u2019s not one reason to vote for Democrats, policy-wise. The only thing the Democrats can do in that arrangement, is get you to vote for the Democrats because you think the Republicans are so bad — because they\u2019re gonna target you, because they\u2019re gonna give the rich all the money back or whatever. Now, granted there\u2019s a sizable number of people that fall for that. We know it and have to admit it. <\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not the voting bloc that you want to win a majority with, and that\u2019s why all this talk of impeachment. That\u2019s why Obama won\u2019t let go of it. That\u2019s why his press secretary and communications guy, Valerie Jarrett, all of them are talking about how the Republicans want to impeach Obama. The Republicans are not talking about it. By the way, I\u2019m not suggested here… The Republicans are their own case study. <\/p>\n

If they win here, it\u2019s strictly gonna be an anti-Democrat, anti-Obama thing. That\u2019s sadly unfortunate, but it\u2019s true. Republicans are their own separate thing. But in this case, everything they\u2019ve got to talk about is either fear-mongering or negative. It\u2019s nothing, nothing positive. “Well, they never talk about positive Rush!” No, you go back to 2008. That\u2019s all it was. It was a blank slate. He was The Messiah!<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t get more positive than that, and that\u2019s the difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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